Wtf you talking about???? Pic was posted by some spanish kid. The pucture is a creenshot of the kid and mo. Screenshot shows phone tine of 1:40pm....posted on twitter at 10am.
Wtf you talking about???? Pic was posted by some spanish kid. The pucture is a creenshot of the kid and mo. Screenshot shows phone tine of 1:40pm....posted on twitter at 10am.
The linked photo is from:
Mo_Farah/status/489377445368569857/photo/1
So, who is the Spanish kid with the same name as Mo Farah?
Maybe he took a wrong turn in Albuquerque...
wejo wrote:
I'm trying to think about how or why Farah would say he was in France but post a picture of himself training in the track in Sabadell Spain,
Am I missing anything here?
He's having an affair !
The guys from Africa-- with a bit of time on the British Isles. Do you think he actually knows the difference between Spain, and France, and Andora, and Portugal, and Catalan, and . . . the dozen of other insignificant countries/regions over there near the Iberian peninsula? The guy is a runner, not a geography professor. Have you ever heard an interview with MO??
RacingtheCanteloupe wrote:
We now know that big chunks of Kenyan athletes (inept federation) and Ethiopian athletes (inept federation + Jama's group) are doping.
Mo Farah goes from being a B-level elite to BEATING all the runners from countries with terrible doping protocols.
He now has association with two coaches in hot water—Jama, who is assuredly doping his athletes, and Salazar, who admitted to testosterone-creaming his sons to test the tolerances of drug tests and at the very least plays games with TUEs.
Guys, don't make it harder than it is.
I would not call an athlete making Olympic teams and reaching WC finals B-level.
First his association with Oregon Project and now this.
Innocent until proven guilty but the question marks are becoming bigger and bolder.
Why is this conversation still going. Aden was release and according to his son there was no EPO and no charges brought against Aden.
Farah could have spent as much time as he wanted with Aden and it's not going to matter. There were no drugs found.
MD Phan wrote:
The guys from Africa-- with a bit of time on the British Isles. Do you think he actually knows the difference between Spain, and France, and Andora, and Portugal, and Catalan, and . . . the dozen of other insignificant countries/regions over there near the Iberian peninsula? The guy is a runner, not a geography professor. Have you ever heard an interview with MO??
Is this Mo's new excuse on why he might miss a drug test? He has no clue where he is. That is not going to play with the testers. Mo has a single missed test strike left.
Monday Track Talk wrote:
Why is this conversation still going. Aden was release and according to his son there was no EPO and no charges brought against Aden.
Farah could have spent as much time as he wanted with Aden and it's not going to matter. There were no drugs found.
It is important because Mo ducked for cover immediately. If all was well he would have been honest and said he wasn't worried. Instead he makes claims about not being involved with Aden's group, not knowing who Aden's runners are, and claiming he is in France when he is actually in the town where the arrests were made. Mo makes himself look foolish, especially if Aden's group is let off the hook.
I'm glad you guys raised the connection between Sabadell and Font Romeu, it now makes a lot of sense. I had to get out an old atlas but Sabadell is less than an hours' drive from Font Romeu. Man our sport is dirty. Before London 2012 NOP was in Font Romeu. Interesting!
But I would like to put forward a new theory, that is that Rupp and Salazar maybe cleaner then we give them credit, but Mo is the dirty one, he is literally never in Oregon, but joined NOP to gain access to their superior equipment and technical expertise whilst spending most of the year at doped up altitude training camps in dodgy locations with dodgy characters.
Also, the excuse that Mo used the wrong pic is utterly b.s. I'm willing to bet that he no longer the phone he had in 2014, when you look on youtube for Mo there are lots of clips of him training with Kenyans and Ethiopians and in between sessions he is on his phone tweeting, texting etc it seems rather odd to have the wrong location when you're a high profile athlete like him.
To his credit most people are idiots when it comes to details....
"no difference between a 4hr + marathon and a sub 3"
"5k marathon"
Those are just some running related ones. My life is spent just asking people to clarify what they say because of my lack of trust in the general populace to get it right.
"I would not call an athlete making Olympic teams and reaching WC finals B-level."
That is fair, what I probably should have said is "a guy who goes from getting roasted at WCs and Olympics by the top tier runners becomes untouchable"
I don't mean that sarcastically… a B-tier elite would not be making those races, I agree. Maybe call it an A-minus tier. Making finals, but not excelling.
Monday Track Talk wrote:
Why is this conversation still going. Aden was release and according to his son there was no EPO and no charges brought against Aden.
Farah could have spent as much time as he wanted with Aden and it's not going to matter. There were no drugs found.
COMPLETELY FALSE. 62 used syringes, preloaded epo syringes and anabolic steroids were found. crawl back in your hole you fVcking liar.
A little bit of logic wrote:
wejo wrote:I saw in the main thread on the Aden raid that there should be at thread on this. I swear I started one yesterday but I must have never hit post.
I'm trying to think about how or why Farah would say he was in France but post a picture of himself training in the track in Sabadell Spain, the town where the Aden raid was conducted. (if you don't know what i'm talking about read here
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/06/jama-aden-doping-raid-update-might-raid-impact-mo-farah-dibabas-nike/)
1) Innocent mistake. He was in France, had been in Spain previously before and just used a photo of himself training for his fans.
2) He wanted to hide the fact he was in Spain.
Those are the only explanations I can come up with.
I lean to #1.
As for #2, if he was trying to hide something there are few complicating factors. Why was he hiding and who would he be hiding from in 2014? Remember the tweet in question was from 2014 BEFORE any of Aden's athletes were busted for drugs.
Also if you were trying to hide that you were somewhere, could you really be that stupid to post a picture of yourself in that place and just call it somewhere else?
Am I missing anything here?
Okay so lets address the damning concern that he wanted to hide the fact he was in Spain. We would have to make illogical assumptions to arrive at that conclusion. The first assumption is that he didn't want people to know he was training in Spain, but why? the only reasonable assumption is because he wanted to avoid connection with Jama. If we accept that premise then why would he publicly advertise for the last two years that he has been training not just at the same site as Jama in Ethiopia, but directly with his athletes in workoits for months at a time. These two things just don't reconcile, he cant both be hiding his connection with Jama but also advertise his connection on social media. It seems like you have an interest in making this a bigger deal than it is actually is.
The fact Jama got raided in Spain is of little value, he could have been caught in Ethiopia, Kenya, Stockholm, Font Romeu or the locations they train. Yes it's damning for Farah that his ties to Jama are very strong, but this picture you uncovered offers little in terms of value and is disingenuous journalism at best.
While your specific analysis on the value of the tweet as an indicator of guilt is decent, I don't think the journalism is disingenuous.
If we want to out dopers, we have to keep suspicions high and make people accountable. Perhaps this pic is totally innocent, but if no one tries to connect the dots, or look at patterns of suspicious activities, then we give dopers free reign to do what they want.
Mope Dealer wrote:
I'm glad you guys raised the connection between Sabadell and Font Romeu, it now makes a lot of sense. I had to get out an old atlas but Sabadell is less than an hours' drive from Font Romeu. Man our sport is dirty. Before London 2012 NOP was in Font Romeu. Interesting!
But I would like to put forward a new theory, that is that Rupp and Salazar maybe cleaner then we give them credit, but Mo is the dirty one, he is literally never in Oregon, but joined NOP to gain access to their superior equipment and technical expertise whilst spending most of the year at doped up altitude training camps in dodgy locations with dodgy characters.
Also, the excuse that Mo used the wrong pic is utterly b.s. I'm willing to bet that he no longer the phone he had in 2014, when you look on youtube for Mo there are lots of clips of him training with Kenyans and Ethiopians and in between sessions he is on his phone tweeting, texting etc it seems rather odd to have the wrong location when you're a high profile athlete like him.
Your theory might be wrong.
FONT-ROMEU, FRANCE
After a dazzling ride through the eastern Pyrenees, you arrive on a plateau village with several hotels, two tracks, dozens of dirt trails and the National Center for Altitude Training. This is Font-Romeu, a classical high-altitude training ground since the 1968 Summer Olympics. The altitude of 6,000 feet has attracted everyone from sumo wrestlers and gracious female figure skaters, but of late it’s been the part-time European training ground for some of the world’s top distance runners. Paula Radcliffe maintains a second home there.
Who? World-record marathoner Paula Radcliffe has made Font Romeu one of her permanent training bases for many years. Other frequent visitors include British middle-distance star Lisa Dobriesky, British marathoner Helen Decker, elite Spanish trail runner Kilian Jornet and New Zealand runner/triathlete Kris Gemmell.
Switching things up from their usual European refuge in St. Moritz, Alberto Salazar took Galen Rupp and Mo Farah to Font Romeu last summer for a bout of altitude training during a break in the European track circuit.
Oh my. Paula Radcliffe has a second home at Font Romeu. That is convenient.
Distance from Barcelona International Airport: 107 miles
http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/training-at-altitudeOperation Puerto, Operation Galgo and Operation Rial were all in Spain.
This is just a coincidence.
Please go back to sleep and have nice dreams.
No worries.
Monday Track Talk wrote:
Why is this conversation still going. Aden was release and according to his son there was no EPO and no charges brought against Aden.
Farah could have spent as much time as he wanted with Aden and it's not going to matter. There were no drugs found.
0/10 not believable.
Meanwhile Alan is trying to quiet the Mo murmuring before going on a ramble about Russia.
http://www.3wiresports.com/2016/06/22/guilt-association-not-cool/He better be getting paid well by USATF because that is more crazy talk.
A third option - He could have a social media manager doing his tweets.[/quote]
He carries full responsibility for someone posting using his account and password. He cannot claim it was someone else he trusted. That means everything Mo posts is posted by someone else. Never Mo. Faker.[/quote]
That worked for Ronald Reagan! He was often napping when someone did something stupid- not his fault!
twitter 2015 wrote:
Metric Miler wrote:Extremely weak evidence.
Weak? Farah clearly stated in his twitter he was in France when he was in Spain. He could he not know where he is? Why state something that isn't true?
Maybe he really was in France, just a few days after training in Spain? You know, like just over the border? That's the border between France and Spain, with the two towns, not far from that border, the French/Spanish border, between France and Spain?
Snsnenejd wrote:
A little bit of logic wrote:Okay so lets address the damning concern that he wanted to hide the fact he was in Spain. We would have to make illogical assumptions to arrive at that conclusion. The first assumption is that he didn't want people to know he was training in Spain, but why? the only reasonable assumption is because he wanted to avoid connection with Jama. If we accept that premise then why would he publicly advertise for the last two years that he has been training not just at the same site as Jama in Ethiopia, but directly with his athletes in workoits for months at a time. These two things just don't reconcile, he cant both be hiding his connection with Jama but also advertise his connection on social media. It seems like you have an interest in making this a bigger deal than it is actually is.
The fact Jama got raided in Spain is of little value, he could have been caught in Ethiopia, Kenya, Stockholm, Font Romeu or the locations they train. Yes it's damning for Farah that his ties to Jama are very strong, but this picture you uncovered offers little in terms of value and is disingenuous journalism at best.
While your specific analysis on the value of the tweet as an indicator of guilt is decent, I don't think the journalism is disingenuous.
If we want to out dopers, we have to keep suspicions high and make people accountable. Perhaps this pic is totally innocent, but if no one tries to connect the dots, or look at patterns of suspicious activities, then we give dopers free reign to do what they want.
Thank you .
Spain is one of a few countries where the raid could occur because doping of athletes is a crime there.